Jian Li

Assistant Professor

Applied Mathematics and Statistics

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Assistant Professor, Ph.D., 2016
Texas A&M University

Professor Li's research interests include reinforcement Learning, Online Learning (Multi-Armed Bandits), Federated Learning, Large-scale Networked and Trustworthy Intelligent Systems.

Jian Li is an Assistant Professor of Data Science with the Departments of Applied Mathematics and Statistics & Computer Science within the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Stony Brook University, State University of New York (SUNY). Previously, he was an assistant professor at SUNY-Binghamton, and a postdoctoral researcher at the College of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2016 and his B.E. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2012. Dr. Li is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2024) and NSF CISE CRII Award (2021). His research has been recognized with several awards, including the ACM/IEEE SC'24 Best Student Paper Finalist, the ACM e-Energy'21 Best Paper Runner-Up Award and IEEE MASCOTS'18 Best Paper Runner-Up Award. 


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